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- ↑ Siddell, Felix (2006). Death Or Deception: Sense of Place in Buzzati and Morante. Leicester: Troubador. p. 50. ISBN 1-905237-11-1.
- ↑ "Il segreto del bosco vecchio". Rivista del cinematografo (in Italian). Retrieved 2015-04-16.
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